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The computing industry is undergoing major evolution positioning mobile devices as the primary personal computing device. This blog will identify concepts and observations related to that evolution - missives on the journey to a mobile computing world.

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This blog post is contributed by Megan Irvine, WebSphere Education Course Developer/Instructor. If done right, push notification can be a useful tool in the
mobile application developer's bag of tricks. Quite simply, push
notification is a way for a mobile application to send an alert or message to a device, even when the application is not
running. It can be a great way for sending notifications about timely
events. For example, a mail application can beep each time you
receive new email, or you can get an alert when tickets for a... [More]